4 Maccabees 9:27

²⁵And saying this, the revered youth abruptly closed his life.

²⁶And when all admired his courageous soul, the spearmen brought forward him who was second in point of age, and having put on iron hands, bound him with pointed hooks to the catapult.

— 4 Maccabees 9:27 —

²⁸after they with the iron hands had violently dragged all the flesh from the neck to the chin, the panther-like beasts tore off the very skin of his head: but he, bearing with firmness this misery, said,

²⁹How sweet is every form of death for the religion of our fathers! and he said to the tyrant,